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SHANTHI SEKARAN -- LUCKY BOY

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October 4, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

GGP's is excited to welcome Shanthi Sekaran on Wednesday, October 4th at 7:00 p.m. She'll be reading from the paperback edition of her acclaimed novel, Lucky Boy.

In this astonishing novel, Shanthi Sekaran gives voice to the devotion and anguish of motherhood through two women bound together by their love for one boy. Soli, a young undocumented Mexican woman in Berkeley, CA, finds that motherhood offers her an identity in a world where she's otherwise invisible. When she is placed in immigrant detention, her son comes under the care of Kavya, an Indian-American wife overwhelmed by her own impossible desire to have a child. As Soli fights for her son, Kavya builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child.

Exploring the ways in which dreams and determination can reshape a family, Sekaran transforms real life into a thing of beauty. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon Valley,Lucky Boyoffers a moving and revelatory look at the evolving landscape of the American dream and the ever-changing borders of love.